Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cohesive country with a strong government, a booming economy and powerful, well-equipped armed forces. While there is internal opposition to the often repressive measures of President Park Chung Hee, there is nothing remotely resembling civil war; even the most outspoken dissidents, in fact, loathe the Communist monolith in Pyongyang, and North Korean infiltrators are almost invariably turned in by citizens to the South's security forces...
...Pyongyang is widely expected to achieve one important propaganda success next fall, a U.N. General Assembly resolution calling for an end to the U.N. mandate in Korea under which the American troops are stationed south of the DMZ. Washington will keep the American forces in place no matter what happens at the U.N., since only the Security Council, where the U.S. has a veto, can actually abolish the command. There is speculation that the U.S. will agree to discuss the removal of its troops from under the U.N. command structure before a vote is taken in the General Assembly...
...alienated the populace. Kim may also feel that the U.S., which has a mutual defense treaty with South Korea (backed by the presence of nearly 40,000 American soldiers), is temporarily so weakened in its foreign policy that it would not respond effectively on Seoul's behalf. Undoubtedly, Pyongyang is aware of a recent U.S. poll that shows 65% of those questioned would oppose U.S. intervention in a new Korean war; only 14% would back...
...talks were suspended last summer because of Pyongyang's objections to the principal South Korean delegate, CIA Chief Lee Hu Rak. There is now speculation among foreign and South Korean officials that Park will appoint a new chief delegate, thereby starting a process of downgrading a hated lieutenant who has clearly become an international and domestic liability...
Moon became an electrical engineer before he found his mission after World War II in Communist North Korea. He fell in with some Pentecostal Christians in Pyongyang's underground church-among whom there were already predictions of a Korean Messiah-and developed a following of his own. Imprisoned by the Communists for nearly three years, he was liberated in 1950. By 1954 he had founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity-known more simply as the Unification Church. In the same year his wife of ten years left him because, he claims, "she could...